On Sunday night, the cast of Broadway’s The Boys in the Band joined Anna Wintour and Vogue’s Hamish Bowles for a conversation at Nordstrom in Columbus Circle. The 1968 play about a group of gay men who gather in a New York City apartment for a friend’s birthday party is currently in previews at the Booth Theatre and will open on May 31. Directed by Joe Mantello, the production is led by an impressive ensemble cast that includes both seasoned and novice Broadway actors including Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Andrew Rannells, Robin de Jesús, Brian Hutchison, Michael Benjamin Washington, and Tuc Watkins. All were in attendance, save for Parsons, who was nursing a foot injury (though that hasn’t kept him from the stage on other nights; he has been gallantly performing with a cane onstage—the show must go on, after all!).

“We’ve come so far in 50 years—legislatively, socially, politically,” Quinto said during the tête-à-tête, which noted how the production was originally shown in a pre–Stonewall Riot era. “And yet, at the same time, I feel like this is a piece that shows how far we have to go in terms of true integration and real acceptance in our society.” Rannells echoed this sentiment: “The [original] cast had to lead very different lives than they get to lead now,” he said. “It’s very exciting for all of us to sit up here and be like, ‘We’re all out and gay actors’ . . . and that no one has been penalized for that.”

While it’s a heavy subject matter, to be sure, it wasn’t long before the conversation turned to fashion, specifically the costumes in the show. Instead of constructing a late ’60s wardrobe from scratch, costume designer David Zinn opted to go shopping, assembling contemporary looks that nodded to the period in the subtlest way possible.

Afterward, guests sipped Champagne and cocktails of vodka, elderflower, and lemon while perusing the latest men’s fashions at the department store, which, as in previous years, will be an important sponsor at the forthcoming Tony Awards, set for June 10.